No natural selection is denied when companies follow outside pressures to only go with 1 or 2 distributions versus what is best for them. It is when people say "Linux must consolidate to 1-2 distributions or it will fail. And companies like Dell, etc are pressured by Wall Street that if they dont own a Linux distribution they will fail."
A lot more criminals (child porn, spammers, etc) using open links for their own purposes. Drive by, do the crime, let the shmuck take the fall. They also find that a lot of 'secure' home computers really arent and can break in, install their malware or get whatever they want from the user before drive off. And with some of the tools.. the car doesnt have to be parked across the street but around the corner.
Oh and these lawbreaking SPAM mavens are going to follow those laws?
No the answer will probably be that when personal data about Federal official families is posted out of the bahamas.. then either there will suddenly be a 51st state and 20000 marines ensuring its loyalty or two sun-rises outside of Miami one morning:(.
I would say that it might send a message if you buy as direct as possible from them.. but I would make sure that they are all bought up by the end of the month. Even if Lego cant keep the product.. it might inspire some other company to do so.
There has been ticket passing for SSH version 1 only. The problem is with SSH version 2. There are 2 ways of doing KRB (Heimdal/MIT/etc) with sshv2 currently.
The first way is using a rather 'quick but broken' method that ssh.com used. This method cleans up the major problem in sshv1 krb passing (which was sending a TGT before you were verified), but does not do any sort of verification of the server to the client or much vice versa. This was implemented into the CVS of SSH.com last month or so.
The second way is using the GSSAPI patches that Simon Wilkinson(sp) has developed. It does a large amount of the proposed IETF standard with only a few 'odd' bits not completed. However, it is a large patch that Openssh doesnt want to look at because they dont trust large outside code patches. They would like it broken into smaller parts.. and then they might look at it.
In the end, a lot of large universities, government installations, and major corporations are using kerberos in their systems. Getting the GSSAPI patch would be useful for me.. since I wouldnt have to patch it by hand every release:).
I doubt they have enough in-house talent that can be dedicated to supporting the product 100%. I have seen way too many organizations say "We have the inhouse talent" and then try to set up a team to do that. Of course, after about 3 months the managers start wondering when the people will be available to go back to their old projects.. and you end up with a fork without updates or updates that arent all that current.
I realize I am biased because Red Hat paid me for 4 years.. but it did give me an idea of what it takes to do an OS with a limited number of people, time, and resources. Trying to roll your own, takes a lot more work to keep up with fixes and problems. It might not be a correlation, but look at how errata seem to come out of the one-off shops. They seem to be 1-2 months behind and spitting out fixes in large amounts. It isnt because they are dumb, but keeping it up and other things is more than they have resources for. (Debian gets away with it because they have a larger number of people and time to get things out in.)
Actually, as an American.. I am quite proud to see the work, words and power of Tony Blair. If he were an American.. I would vote for him to be President:)
> The old adage 'The only safe computer is locked
> in a room and unplugged from the Internet'
> proves false. According to a recent security
> report about Logitech wireless mice and
> keyboards, an attacker can sit a hundred feet
> or more from your computer and 'sniff' the data
> from your keyboard and mouse. Scary."
Actually the adage is
'The only safe computer is locked in a bunker, unplugged from the power grid, and turned off. And then it is questionable. Safer still is just to slag the whole thing down to its random bits.
Lower quality in Scientific American!!!
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· Score: 1
About 3 months ago, Scientific American changed formats, and I am not very impressed. It seems to have tried to pull in the Discovery and Wired audiences at the same time with "new layout", "smaller articles", and dropping pretty much all its columns from the past (Mathematics, Home Scientist, Wonders, etc etc) except for the humour one.
The biggest problem is that the articles do not seem to get the "review" that they got previously or the editing for style over content has pulled out some of the meat. Even the latest news blurbs have gone from scientific facts reported to "yet un-published papers".
I just signed up for a 3 year subscription right before the change (well thats one thing I can change this week.) Personally I would rather get Popular Science now than Scientific American. I am going to probably just have to get a subscription to Science or Nature now.
This is actually a good idea as long as you stick to a market where you wont have a lot of competition.
The main reason a lot of mom & pop's I have dealt with have gotten bought up was that it was getting way to expensive. First a good many of your customers are pretty finicky going from one service to another on a whim. Second, you have to cover a lot of costs that are hidden to the end customer. The phone lines, modem costs, server costs, T{1,3,etc} access can eat you alive. And finally there are the legal problems when one of your customers ends up being a script kiddie. Finally the customer service is a nightmare because like most things.. you are appreciated.
A good many of the Mom and Pops I did support for from Red Hat in 1997 have been bought up. Those I have contacted have overwhelmingly been happy about it because they finally were able to spend time with their families, not deal with angry people (what do you mean my 14.4 cant do video.. I bought this new 5 years ago).
Deep down inside, I think we as customers have gotten the service we paid for:/. That aside, the ones who are still in business are ones who have taken places where AOL etc find too expensive, and have good communities under them (ie people who do appreciate them.)
In the end, I have found that the only cross platform useful document formats are TeX, RTF, and SGML/XML DTD's. However, your mileage will vary no matter what (each editor seems to save RTF in its own way and you really cant have StyleSheets that cross over.)
To put it bluntly.. other than ASCII (7bit) you are going to lose some people, mangle documents, and just about have someone complain about not being able to see stuff. That sadly is the cold hard facts of life..
I have found that Microsoft found out that the desktop killer app was word processing and killed anyone else in it:)
Who is going to pay for all this "Free" content that people want to view? It really does cost a lot of money to keep servers up, networks running, etc etc. Those things have to be paid for somehow.. and without ads it looks to be:
Pay to play (ie you cant view slashdot without paying to join)
Taxes (eewww slashdot is subsidized by US citizens and content to non-US citizens is then pay to play with a "content" tax.)
So we are the brilliant ones.. what is the alternative to paying for your free crap?
I have had to deal with such politics before.. it
was one of the reasons I left for Red Hat a couple
of years ago. My suggestion is the following:
If it happens and it just might no matter what you
present..
Think of the following. If you really dont want to
work with Exchange update your resume and find
somewhere else to work. While it might seem
satisfying to wait for the faction to eat crow
when the Exchange server dies, a new Virus sweeps
and removes everyone's data, or the hundreds of
other problems.. the end results are always an
growing ulcer for the IS staff. You will be much
better off going someplace where you can be
challenged with things that you want to be... and
in this IS short economy.. finding a job is pretty
good.
If on the other hand you want to try the challenge
of integrating Unix and Microsoft.. go for it. You
will learn a lot, and come out wiser about how
things can spiral out of control quickly. But I
really would say that "feet" talk better than
words these days.
-----------------------
by SimonK (simon@flatnet.demon.co.gb) on 11:53 14 November 2000 EST (#182)
(User #7722 Info)
Thats deeply unrealistic. W3C recent standards are extremely complex (I have the schema spec before me: its in three parts, over around 300 pages, is very informally written, and deeply confusing). 100% compliance is very hard, when you also want 100% compatibility with buggy web pages.
Put bluntly: if you think 100% compliance and compatibility are possible, go do it. The world will beat a path to your door.
----------------
Even if it was possible.. you would never get to it because your mailbox would be full of anony-cowards sending email saying how much you suck for
a) taking time to do it
b) not making it the way they want it
c) releasing anything that isnt perfect.
d) because it makes anonycoward feel all that much more powerful in their tiny world.
I remember reading that article in 1996. I thought at the time it linked to the original paper at MIT for perusal.. which actually gave a nice solid proof not just for electorial college but using
House/Senate versus direct election on all laws/rules.
The main issue is that it does seem to logically cause a 2 party system to occur. Reasoning being is that with only 1 winner available that the "co-alitions" that one sees in parliaments are done at the large party level versus smaller party
I will be the first to admit that when I paid 70 for it I was uhm less than enthused. I had bought
the previous 2 versions though and had found them
to be still useful guides when dealing with older
Unixs (SGI/Ultrix/OSF) that I would run into...
The extra $30 I paid for the 3rd edition is in the
depth they go into subjects that need to be done..
I retired 3 O'Reilly books this week after finding
the information not up to par with this book.
Personally I think every support engineer and sysadmin should have a copy of this book.
Microsoft and other organizations do this whenever
they find a lot of people registering with the
same ID number etc from a corporate, govt, etc location.
Slashdot Mirror
No natural selection is denied when companies follow outside pressures to only go with 1 or 2 distributions versus what is best for them. It is when people say "Linux must consolidate to 1-2 distributions or it will fail. And companies like Dell, etc are pressured by Wall Street that if they dont own a Linux distribution they will fail."
A lot more criminals (child porn, spammers, etc) using open links for their own purposes. Drive by, do the crime, let the shmuck take the fall. They also find that a lot of 'secure' home computers really arent and can break in, install their malware or get whatever they want from the user before drive off. And with some of the tools.. the car doesnt have to be parked across the street but around the corner.
Oh and these lawbreaking SPAM mavens are going to follow those laws?
:(.
No the answer will probably be that when personal data about Federal official families is posted out of the bahamas.. then either there will suddenly be a 51st state and 20000 marines ensuring its loyalty or two sun-rises outside of Miami one morning
Having seen this at a large corporation:
1) Their customer service staff will be canned because it will help show something is being done.
2) Their stock price will go up because layoffs are good.
3) You will get put in the crank list of a lot of magazines because you have hurt their possible advertisers.
I would say that it might send a message if you buy as direct as possible from them.. but I would make sure that they are all bought up by the end of the month. Even if Lego cant keep the product.. it might inspire some other company to do so.
You might look insightful if you actually looked at the software versus spouting off.
Vancouver is in Canada so it has pubs and warm beer.
Actually the company that gets the most from the anti-linux FUD is Sun. THey also popped SCO a major chunk (and probably recommended Boise to them)
There have been audits of the code, but I am not sure any of the auditors have been blessed by the OpenSSH developers so it doesnt mean much.
I can understand their reluctance, but meeting people half way is needed.
There has been ticket passing for SSH version 1 only. The problem is with SSH version 2. There are 2 ways of doing KRB (Heimdal/MIT/etc) with sshv2 currently.
:).
The first way is using a rather 'quick but broken' method that ssh.com used. This method cleans up the major problem in sshv1 krb passing (which was sending a TGT before you were verified), but does not do any sort of verification of the server to the client or much vice versa. This was implemented into the CVS of SSH.com last month or so.
The second way is using the GSSAPI patches that Simon Wilkinson(sp) has developed. It does a large amount of the proposed IETF standard with only a few 'odd' bits not completed. However, it is a large patch that Openssh doesnt want to look at because they dont trust large outside code patches. They would like it broken into smaller parts.. and then they might look at it.
In the end, a lot of large universities, government installations, and major corporations are using kerberos in their systems. Getting the GSSAPI patch would be useful for me.. since I wouldnt have to patch it by hand every release
I doubt they have enough in-house talent that can be dedicated to supporting the product 100%. I have seen way too many organizations say "We have the inhouse talent" and then try to set up a team to do that. Of course, after about 3 months the managers start wondering when the people will be available to go back to their old projects.. and you end up with a fork without updates or updates that arent all that current.
I realize I am biased because Red Hat paid me for 4 years.. but it did give me an idea of what it takes to do an OS with a limited number of people, time, and resources. Trying to roll your own, takes a lot more work to keep up with fixes and problems. It might not be a correlation, but look at how errata seem to come out of the one-off shops. They seem to be 1-2 months behind and spitting out fixes in large amounts. It isnt because they are dumb, but keeping it up and other things is more than they have resources for. (Debian gets away with it because they have a larger number of people and time to get things out in.)
SGI has been cutting jobs steadily for the last 4 years. This is one of the smallest job cuts in that time...
So I wonder what my horoscope would be if I lived on Mars?
Actually, as an American.. I am quite proud to see the work, words and power of Tony Blair. If he were an American.. I would vote for him to be President :)
> The old adage 'The only safe computer is locked
> in a room and unplugged from the Internet'
> proves false. According to a recent security
> report about Logitech wireless mice and
> keyboards, an attacker can sit a hundred feet
> or more from your computer and 'sniff' the data
> from your keyboard and mouse. Scary."
Actually the adage is
'The only safe computer is locked in a bunker, unplugged from the power grid, and turned off. And then it is questionable. Safer still is just to slag the whole thing down to its random bits.
About 3 months ago, Scientific American changed formats, and I am not very impressed. It seems to have tried to pull in the Discovery and Wired audiences at the same time with "new layout", "smaller articles", and dropping pretty much all its columns from the past (Mathematics, Home Scientist, Wonders, etc etc) except for the humour one.
The biggest problem is that the articles do not seem to get the "review" that they got previously or the editing for style over content has pulled out some of the meat. Even the latest news blurbs have gone from scientific facts reported to "yet un-published papers".
I just signed up for a 3 year subscription right before the change (well thats one thing I can change this week.) Personally I would rather get Popular Science now than Scientific American. I am going to probably just have to get a subscription to Science or Nature now.
Stephen "Old Fuddy-Duddy" Smoogen
This is actually a good idea as long as you stick to a market where you wont have a lot of competition.
:/. That aside, the ones who are still in business are ones who have taken places where AOL etc find too expensive, and have good communities under them (ie people who do appreciate them.)
The main reason a lot of mom & pop's I have dealt with have gotten bought up was that it was getting way to expensive. First a good many of your customers are pretty finicky going from one service to another on a whim. Second, you have to cover a lot of costs that are hidden to the end customer. The phone lines, modem costs, server costs, T{1,3,etc} access can eat you alive. And finally there are the legal problems when one of your customers ends up being a script kiddie. Finally the customer service is a nightmare because like most things.. you are appreciated.
A good many of the Mom and Pops I did support for from Red Hat in 1997 have been bought up. Those I have contacted have overwhelmingly been happy about it because they finally were able to spend time with their families, not deal with angry people (what do you mean my 14.4 cant do video.. I bought this new 5 years ago).
Deep down inside, I think we as customers have gotten the service we paid for
My opinion only.
In the end, I have found that the only cross platform useful document formats are TeX, RTF, and SGML/XML DTD's. However, your mileage will vary no matter what (each editor seems to save RTF in its own way and you really cant have StyleSheets that cross over.)
:)
To put it bluntly.. other than ASCII (7bit) you are going to lose some people, mangle documents, and just about have someone complain about not being able to see stuff. That sadly is the cold hard facts of life..
I have found that Microsoft found out that the desktop killer app was word processing and killed anyone else in it
Happy holidays
Who is going to pay for all this "Free" content that people want to view? It really does cost a lot of money to keep servers up, networks running, etc etc. Those things have to be paid for somehow.. and without ads it looks to be:
Pay to play (ie you cant view slashdot without paying to join)
Taxes (eewww slashdot is subsidized by US citizens and content to non-US citizens is then pay to play with a "content" tax.)
So we are the brilliant ones.. what is the alternative to paying for your free crap?
I have had to deal with such politics before.. it
was one of the reasons I left for Red Hat a couple
of years ago. My suggestion is the following:
If it happens and it just might no matter what you
present..
Think of the following. If you really dont want to
work with Exchange update your resume and find
somewhere else to work. While it might seem
satisfying to wait for the faction to eat crow
when the Exchange server dies, a new Virus sweeps
and removes everyone's data, or the hundreds of
other problems.. the end results are always an
growing ulcer for the IS staff. You will be much
better off going someplace where you can be
challenged with things that you want to be... and
in this IS short economy.. finding a job is pretty
good.
If on the other hand you want to try the challenge
of integrating Unix and Microsoft.. go for it. You
will learn a lot, and come out wiser about how
things can spiral out of control quickly. But I
really would say that "feet" talk better than
words these days.
-----------------------
by SimonK (simon@flatnet.demon.co.gb) on 11:53 14 November 2000 EST (#182)
(User #7722 Info)
Thats deeply unrealistic. W3C recent standards are extremely complex (I have the schema spec before me: its in three parts, over around 300 pages, is very informally written, and deeply confusing). 100% compliance is very hard, when you also want 100% compatibility with buggy web pages.
Put bluntly: if you think 100% compliance and compatibility are possible, go do it. The world will beat a path to your door.
----------------
Even if it was possible.. you would never get to it because your mailbox would be full of anony-cowards sending email saying how much you suck for
a) taking time to do it
b) not making it the way they want it
c) releasing anything that isnt perfect.
d) because it makes anonycoward feel all that much more powerful in their tiny world.
I remember reading that article in 1996. I thought at the time it linked to the original paper at MIT for perusal.. which actually gave a nice solid proof not just for electorial college but using
House/Senate versus direct election on all laws/rules.
The main issue is that it does seem to logically cause a 2 party system to occur. Reasoning being is that with only 1 winner available that the "co-alitions" that one sees in parliaments are done at the large party level versus smaller party
As much as it might be Intel "muscling" in on Compaq, IBM etc.. it might be just the same back
:)
Compaq says: We want lower prices or we go to Transmeta.
Intel says: Ok go ahead...
Compaq puts out press releases, and then decides to drop Transmeta when Intel gives a lower bid.
Conspiracy theories work both ways
I will be the first to admit that when I paid 70 for it I was uhm less than enthused. I had bought
the previous 2 versions though and had found them
to be still useful guides when dealing with older
Unixs (SGI/Ultrix/OSF) that I would run into...
The extra $30 I paid for the 3rd edition is in the
depth they go into subjects that need to be done..
I retired 3 O'Reilly books this week after finding
the information not up to par with this book.
Personally I think every support engineer and sysadmin should have a copy of this book.
Microsoft and other organizations do this whenever
they find a lot of people registering with the
same ID number etc from a corporate, govt, etc location.